MAMMALIA. 



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WHITE-EARED FARADOXURE. 



A paradoxure distinguished by white-tipped ear.- is 

 not very rare in the Provinces. 



Paradoxurus lencorhinus, Blyth. 



UNDESCRIBEU PARADOXL'RF. 



An undescribed species has been sent up to Calcutta 

 from two of these Provinces, and from Arracan, but it 

 has not yet received a name. The natives do not distin- 

 guish it from the common pnradoxure. 



TENASSERIM ICHNEUMON. 



This animal is not the genuine ichneumon, but it be- 

 longs to the same family, and has its habits, it is remark- 

 able for devouring snakes. 



Urva cancrivora, Blyth. 



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ROYAL TIGER. 



Tigers are sufficiently abundant in the Provinces, al- 

 most everywhere. Twice during my residence at Tavoy 

 they came into the gate of my compound, broke open the 

 c or of the goat-house, and succeeded in killing a goat 

 each time before they could be routed. On another oc- 

 casion, while sleeping in a jungle hamlet, a tiger leaped 

 into a buffalo pen cjose by the house, and killed a bui- 

 falo. They appear to be afraid to encounter a man until 

 they have once entered the contest with him, when all 

 fear ceases ever after. I have encamped in the jungles 

 of: en, where the tracks of tigers were seen all around in 

 the morning within a few yards of where myself and peo- 

 ple had bivouacked, yet they never ventured an attack 

 whenever a tiger has once tasted human blood it ever 

 after seeks it in preference to all other. 



A Burman was struck down by a tiger at the head of 

 Tavov river, and he was seen by his companions to in- 

 flict a severe wound on his antagonist with his knife, but 



